Not expecting: Sacramento's most famous fat cat, Norm Lopez, enjoys an almost cult-like following in parts of the state capital - local bands have put him on their T-shirts, commuters exit the light rail at the 13th Street stop just to say hello and his Facebook page (as of Tuesday evening) was nearing 500 friends. Unfortunately, a well-meaning stranger mistook him for a pregnant cat in distress Friday and took him to the Front Street Animal Shelter. A shelter employee recognized him from his Facebook page, and soon the chunky kitty was reunited with his human, Tyler Lopez. Norm now has an identification chip and will be hosting a pub crawl to benefit the shelter Aug. 31.

Photo: Sue Morrow, Associated Press

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More of a birder collie: Laddy challenges the notion that border collies are among the most intelligent of dog breeds after being unable to get down from a tree he scampered up. His owner says the pooch apparently chased a squirrel up the tree after escaping the electrical fencing system at his home in Davenport, Iowa, due to a dead battery in his collar.

Photo: Ron Stevenson, Associated Press

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Meteors streak above the Wyoming countryside early Tuesday morning north of Cheyenne in this time-elapsed photo. The past couple nights were the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower, which runs from mid-July through mid-August.

Queen for a day: We doubt this kilted soccer fan will portray Her Majesty in a favorable light during the Scotland-England match at London's Wembley Stadium.

Photo: Dominic Lipinski, Associated Press

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Dad follows instructions upon reuniting with his daughter, Morgan, 5, at the Scranton
Armory. Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class David Dunton of Carbondale, Pa., was welcomed
home by his family after serving a stint in Kuwait.

Pro-Morsi rioters push an armored police vehicle off the 6th of October Bridge in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo. Hundreds were reportedly killed Wednesday in the bloodiest day in Egypt since the revolution as supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi clashed with police.

Portrait of a Hotshot: A member of the Idaho City Hotshots takes a break to pose for a photo after creating a back burn along the Pine-Featherville Road near Pine, Idaho. Firefighters were battling the Elk Fire Complex, which has burned more than 90,000 acres.

Photo: Ashley Smith, Associated Press

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Silver lining pep talk: Despite husband Ashton Eaton's reassuring words, Canada's Brianne Theisen Eaton is clearly disappointed to have placed second overall in the 800-meter heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow.

MLK's tears: Light rain causes Martin Luther King Jr.'s statue to weep at the civil rights leader's memorial in Washington, D.C. Work to refinish part of the memorial where a disputed inscription was recently removed may not be done until after the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.

Whisker basket: A zookeeper packs a young seal for a beach trip at Seehundstation Norddeich, a rehab center for orphaned seal pups on the North Sea German coast. This youngster is about to be returned to the wild.

Photo: David Hecker, Getty Images

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Out you go: Young seals, now strong enough to fend for the themselves, crawl out of their baskets and into the surf on a beach in the Islands of Juist near Norddeich, Germany. The pups were raised at a rehab center for about a year. They would have likely not survived had they not been rescued.

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Aces the bar exam: Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva springs to a gold medal in the pole vault
at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow.

Baby sitter: A 17-day-old pygmy marmoset clings to the back of a sibling at the Houston Zoo. Marmosets often give new moms a break, with older siblings and unrelated adults pitching in to chauffeur the infants around.

Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle

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Defender of an ancient burial ground: An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holds his hat out against a police water cannon torrent in Ramat Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem. Dozens of Ultra-Orthodox Jews, known as Haredim, protested for a third day against the desecration of ancient graves that were discovered at a housing construction site.